Archive for July, 2008

Web Patterns

Saturday, July 12th, 2008

As a User Interface actor, I must often describe web applications.

This is a difficult step of the project : how to find the best word to describe one functionality? you have an idea, your collegue understands something else, so does the client :)

One solution is made by this nice web-site:
Web Patterns: A UC Berkeley Resource for Building User Interfaces

Web Pattern Berkeley

Anyone can suggest a pattern. Every pattern is illustrated by screenshots with links to the corresponding website.

Simple & efficient!

Mule, the famous opensource ESB introduced

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008

Mule-Logo

Mule is the most widely used open source Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). It is a lightweight Java-based messaging framework that allows you to quickly and easily connect your applications and enable them to exchange data. It allows you carrying (routing) data between applications within your intranet or across the Internet.

Ross Mason, coofondator of Mulesource was in Paris this week to introduce the new version of their solution ESB Mule 2.0.
One of the major changes seems to be the configuration file which is much easier: you do not need to specify Mule Classes, but only include some key words.